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A young ranger in the Montana wilderness discovers the great forces of nature while learning the importance of honor, trust and integrity. Legendary veteran ranger Bill Bell educates the young man and guides him toward manhood. The year is 1919-a time when being a ranger meant more than operating expensive equipment. Forest fires were fought with guts and courage, not chemicals and airplanes. Bill Bell was the toughest ranger in an elite crew of very rugged men. A figure of heroic proportions, he was generally feared and respected by all. It was even rumored that he had at one time killed a sheep farmer, which only fueled his already enormous reputation. The young ranger does everything to remain in the good graces of Bill Bell, the senior ranger he idolizes. Their tentative rapport grows into a friendship through a hilarious and heroic rite of passage in which the younger ranger meets the test-and the woman of his dreams.
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00:00Thursday, Bill Bell was the best ranger in the Forest Service,
00:02but a boy named Mac thought he knew better.
00:04You're not proving anything to anybody.
00:06Just to me.
00:07Now, he's teaching Mac to be a man.
00:10I don't go in too much for getting stuff and beat out of me.
00:13Sam Elliott.
00:14Fair chance of making a ranger out of you yet.
00:16The ranger, the cook in a hole in the sky, Thursday on ABC.
00:20From the executive producer of NYPD Blue comes a powerful new drama.
00:24Now, the law is his target.
00:26And a famous defense lawyer takes center stage as he defends the accused.
00:29In Steven Bochco's explosive new series, Murder One, this fall on ABC.

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